Add Delaware and Tennessee, who were chosen as winners in the first round of the competition.

Michigan leaders passed a series of school reform laws as part of the Race to the Top application, issued a release this afternoon saying they are committed to the changes even though it appears $400 million in federal money won’t be coming.

“We are disappointed that Michigan’s efforts to strengthen our public schools and ensure that every child is successful were not recognized by the U.S. Department of Education,” said Gov. Jennifer Granholm. “We felt our strong application effectively detailed our efforts to improve instruction and student performance and had extraordinary support from local school districts and the labor unions.”

The new laws include statewide plan to turnaround low-performing schools, linking teacher evaluations to test scores, raising the dropout age to 18, expanding charter schools and accepting nationally accepted common standards.

State Superintendent Michael Flanagan said in the release that the Education Department will review the feedback on the application to see where the state lost points.

But Michigan was criticized for not having the labor unions fully on board. That wasn’t an issue in the second round.

But at that same session, Sally Vaughn, the state’s chief academic officer, replied that the two winning states are smaller and had more experience with creating student data bases. Plus, she said, they had a “compelling story.”